Wharton

Famous quotes containing the word wharton:

    When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

    We who knew him well know how great he would have been if he had never written a line.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

    I have been spending my first night in an American “summer hotel,” and I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining callow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)